Famous People Born In 1871
Discover the most famous people born in 1871. The list includes people like Ernest Rutherford, Marcel Proust, Rosa Luxemburg, Cordell Hull, James Weldon Johnson and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, poets, psychologists and journalists born in 1871. This list includes people from France, United States, United Kingdom & Germany and many more countries.
Marcel Proust10th July, French
French novelist
Rosa Luxemburg5th March, German, Polish
Marxist Theorist
Ernest Rutherford30th August, New Zealander, British
Physicist, Chemist
Friedrich Ebert4th February, German
Politician
James Weldon Johnson17th June, American
Author
Cordell Hull2nd October, American
Secretary of State, USA
Orville Wright19th August, American
Co-inventor of First Successful Airplane
Grazia Deledda27th September, Italian
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Jack Butler Yeats29th August, Irish, British
Irish artist
Victor Grignard6th May, French
Chemist
Paul Valery30th October, French
Poet
Guangxu Emperor14th August, Chinese
Emperor of China
Stephen Crane1st November, American
Writer, Journalist, Poet, Baseball player,
Pietro Badoglio28th September, Italian
Prime Minister
Theodore Dreiser27th August, American
Novelist
Karl Liebknecht13th January, German
Lawyer
Ioannis Metaxas12th April, Greek
Politician, Officer, Military personnel
Emily Carr13th December, Canadian
Painter, Autobiographer
Arthur Griffith31st March, Irish
Former President of Dáil Éireann
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty17th January, Irish, British
Politician, Military personnel
W. H. Davies3rd July, Welsh
British poet
John Millington Synge16th April, Irish
Playwright, Poet
Albert Lebrun29th August, French
Politician
Guillermo Kahlo26th October, Mexican
Photographer
Giacomo Balla18th July, Italian
Painter, Sculptor, Composer
Pop Warner5th April, American
Football coach
Walter Bradford Cannon19th October, American
Physiologist
Charles Freer Andrews12th February, British
Priest
Heinrich Mann27th March, Czech
Novelist
Maurice Garin3rd March, French, Italian
Bicycler
Sergei Bulgakov28th June, Russian
Theologian
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Stjepan Radić11th June, Croatian
Political
John Langalibalele Dube22nd February, South African
Essayist
Nicolae Iorga17th January, Romanian
politician, linguist, geopolitician, poet
František Kupka23rd September, Czech
Artist
Alexander von Zemlinsky14th October, Austrian
Composer
Lyonel Feininger17th July, American
Painter, Artist
Georges Rouault27th May, French
Curator, Painter, Graphic artist
Émile Borel7th January, French
Mathematician, Politician, University teacher
James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon8th January, British, Northern Irish
Politician
Leonid Andreyev21st August, Russian
playwright, writer, journalist, lawyer
Ernst Zermelo27th July, German
Mathematician, Philosopher, University teacher
Lesya Ukrainka25th February, Ukrainian
Writer
Fielding H. Yost30th April, American
American Football Player
Aarnoud van Heemstra22nd July
Politician
Claus Schilling5th July, German
Military physician, Non-fiction writer
Newton D. Baker3rd December, American
Politician
Seebohm Rowntree7th July, British
Researcher
John Sloan2nd August, American
Artist
Christian Morgenstern6th May, German
Poet, Writer, Translator, Literary editor,
Willem Mengelberg28th March, Dutch
Conductor
Florine Stettheimer19th August, American
Painter
Margaret Floy Washburn25th July, American
Psychologist
John Chilembwe31st May, Malawian
Pastor
Oscar Stanton De Priest9th March, American
American Politician
Luisa Tetrazzini29th June, Italian
Soprano Singer
Clarence Hudson White8th April, American
Photographer
Hubert Cecil Booth4th July, British
Engineer
Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence28th December, British
Politician
Samuel Hopkins Adams26th January, American
Author
Luigi Sturzo26th November, Italian
Priest
José Enrique Rodó15th July, Uruguayan
Essayist
John Henry Taylor19th March, British
Professional Golfer
Kōtoku Shūsui5th November, Japanese
Social leader
Dun Karm Psaila18th October, Maltese
Priest
Cyrus Avery31st August, American
Public servant
Erich von Tschermak15th November, Austrian
Agronomist
Giovanni Giorgi27th November, Italian
Physicist
Olga Preobrajenska2nd February, Russian
Ballerina
Lee Shubert25th March, American
Theatrical producer
Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky6th August, Russian
Choreographer
Howard Taylor Ricketts9th February, American
Pathologist
Edgar J. Goodspeed23rd October, American
Theologian
Louise Homer30th April, American
Singer
Camille Huysmans26th May, Belgian
Politician
Stijn Streuvels3rd October, Belgian
Writer
Henry Kimball Hadley20th December, American
American composer
Ovide Decroly23rd July, Belgian
Teacher
Eleanor Clarke Slagle13th October, American
Social worker
Ralph Hodgson9th September, British
Poet
Giuseppe Motta29th December, Swiss
Politician
Harriet Boyd Hawes11th October, American
Archaeologist
Luigi Albertini19th October, Italian
Editor
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas11th May, Nicaraguan
Political Leader
Fritz Schaudinn19th September, German, Prussian
Zoologist
Frederick Converse5th January, American
Composer
Nils Edén25th August, Swedish
Historian
William Diller Matthew19th February, Canadian, American
Paleontologist
Reginald Aldworth Daly18th March, Canadian
Geologist
William Robert Shepherd12th June, American
Cartographer
Florence Sabin30th November
Biologist, Immunologist, Educator
Lugenia Burns Hope19th February, American
Social reformer
Maud Wood Park25th January, American
feminist
Sakai Toshihiko15th January, Japanese
Writer